Learn Arabic › B1 › قِطّ
قِطّ
cat /ˈqɪtˤtˤ/
nounB1#1427 most common
Also: tomcat, male cat
Example sentences
عِنْدِي قِطّ.
I have a cat.
القِطّ يَشْرَبُ الحَلِيب.
The cat drinks the milk.
قِطّي يَنامُ طَوالَ النَّهار.
My cat sleeps all day long.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ طَعامًا لِقِطّي الصَّغير.
I bought food for my little cat.
يُقالُ إِنَّ لِكُلِّ قِطٍّ سَبْعَةَ أَرْواح.
They say every cat has seven lives.
تَسَلَّلَ القِطُّ بِخِفّةٍ بَيْنَ السُّطوحِ كَأَنَّهُ ظِلٌّ عابِر.
The cat slipped lightly across the rooftops as if it were a passing shadow.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | قِطٌّ | قِطَطٌ |
| Genitive | قِطٍّ | قِطَطٍ |
| Accusative | قِطًّا | قِطَطًا |
| Vocative | يا قِطُّ | يا قِطَطُ |
Word family
قِطّةfemale cat, she-cat
قُطَيْطkitten (diminutive)
قِطَطcats (plural)
هِرّcat (synonym from a different root)
Etymology
قِطّ is the common Arabic word for a cat. It belongs to a family of similar cat words that circulated around the Mediterranean and Near East in late antiquity, among them Latin cattus and Late Greek kátta. The ultimate source is uncertain and may lie in an African language. Arabic also uses هِرّ for the same animal.
Learn Arabic the way that sticks.
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free
Every word here is a full Polylex card with native audio and spaced repetition, so 4,080 words actually move into long-term memory.
Start free